Category talk:Has COVID-19 box with out of date warning

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The COVID box for India has been updated. How can I remove India from this category list. @SHB2000 2006nishan178713^t@lk 04:15, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

@2006nishan178713: It looks like you updated the COVID-19 box at the top of the article, but not the one in the India#By train 2 section. If you update the "lastedit" date in that second box, the article should automatically be removed from this category. —Granger (talk · contribs) 16:38, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks 2006nishan178713^t@lk 16:59, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Out-of-date COVID-19 boxes

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There are currently more than 100 articles in Category:Has COVID-19 box with out of date warning. Please take a look and help bring them up to date if you can. Even updating one or two of them would be much appreciated. —Granger (talk · contribs) 14:59, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

What about York, Yosemite National Park, Kingston (Ontario), Guangzhou, Singapore/Sentosa and Harbourfront, Seattle, Naikoon Provincial Park, Metro Cebu, Metro Manila, Los Angeles, Lipa, Las Vegas/The Strip, ... Do they need boxes of their own? –LPfi (talk) 20:12, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

It's a good question. I think some of the boxes in city/park articles can be useful, if they have information specific to the destination and aren't just repeating information from the country article. But in some of the cities you've listed, the boxes are so old that it might be simplest just to remove them. —Granger (talk · contribs) 20:46, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

I agree that they make sense in some cases, but the risk of them staying there without updates is high, so there needs to be a real need for specific information. –LPfi (talk) 21:21, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

I agree that it is better to remove out-of-date information than to leave it there. I don't think that many cities have restrictions that are different from their state/province or country. Ground Zero (talk) 21:39, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

A year ago Glasgow was in lockdown, but Edinburgh was not. The Scottish Government had decided to vary the measures by council area depending on the local infection rate.

Covid boxes can also be used to report temporary changes which may be commercial decisions - reduced bus services due to less commuters, places to eat closing early as there are no business travellers, or museums only open to visitors that have booked online. For these Covid boxes it might be good to set a longer review period. AlasdairW (talk) 22:57, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

So, if an individual city suddenly has no airline service at all because of this, we should say so?

What about the destinations which are basically non-functional once an international border is closed, like Hyder, Alaska? Having no warning at all is nuts, if the only overland route out is Canada and there are border restrictions still in place. It's not a unique case, but it is awkward enough to be a special case. 204.237.50.221 00:06, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Yes, say so. Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:47, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Now down to 65 articles, so progress has been made but there is still more to go. These include high-profile country articles like Germany, Mexico, Sweden, France, and India. It would be great if editors interested in those countries or others in the category could help bring the COVID-19 boxes up to date. —Granger (talk · contribs) 13:40, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

@Hobbitschuster:, by any chance, can you update the Germany one? (although your last edit here was in 2021-09-26, I noticed you're still active in de.wiki) SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 22:28, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Now down to 40. Thanks for updating these Granger :). SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 20:54, 21 December 2021 (UTC)